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Friday, Oct. 7, 2011:

Robert Anthony Peters:

Robert is a San Francisco native enjoying the challenges of life in Manhattan. In 2001, he completed his BS at the UofA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, was a Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow in DC (placed at IWF), and trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in NYC. A few of his films available to the public are The Pursuit of Happyness, Revolution Summer, The Village Barbershop, and Wasted.

Dr. Prentice served as the Chief Macroeconomist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture under Presidents Carter and Reagan. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Department of Treasury under President Clinton. PauI earned his B.A. in Mathematics, and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, from the University of Connecticut.

Ben has made many guest appearances on radio and television programs to discuss policy issues. He has testified before legislative committees and has given presentations to community groups, legislators, candidates, and national conferences.

Bob Bowdon has been a television producer, reporter and commentator for the past fifteen years. His varied career has seen him conducting in-depth on-camera interviews, anchoring newscasts and producing nationally-syndicated TV shows. He’s even appeared in satirical news sketches for the Onion News Network.

The Cartel, Bowdon’s award-winning documentary, reveals the nature and extent of corruption in public education. Behind every dropout factory, we discover, lurks a powerful, entrenched and self-serving cartel. And the film puts a human face on those who suffer as a result.

Ultimately, The Cartel is a call to action, not despair. The film profiles heroic administrators, teachers and students who defy the odds—particularly in schools of choice. The Cartel powerfully concludes that we must insist on immediate and systemic reform that puts students first. And we must do it now. That same conviction animates the work of his newest project, Choice Media.

Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011:

Dr. Yuri Nicholas Maltsev:

Yuri Maltsev, Professor of Economics, earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Moscow State University, and his Ph.D. in Labor Economics at the Institute of Labor Research in Moscow, Russia. Before defecting to the United States in 1989, he was a member of a senior Soviet economics team that worked on President Gorbachev's reforms package of perestroika. Prior to joining Carthage, Professor Maltsev was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., a federal research agency. His work involved briefing members of Congress and senior officials at the executive branch on issues of national security and foreign economic assessment.

Professor Maltsev has also appeared on CNN, Financial Network News, PBS Newshour, C-Span, Fox News, CBC, and other American, Canadian, and European television and radio programs. He has lectured at leading universities, corporations, banks, colleges, churches, schools, and community centers all over the world. He has authored five books and hundreds of articles in U.S. and foreign publications. He currently is a professor at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin and a Senior Scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

Dr. Joshua Dunn:

Joshua Dunn (PhD, University of Virginia, 2002) is Associate Professor Political Science at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs where he teaches courses on American political institutions, constitutional law, and political theory. His research primarily focuses on constitutional history and judicial policymaking.